CBI director Sood said as many as 29 wanted criminals were brought back to India in 2023 and 19 so far in 2024 with the help of Interpol and international law enforcement partners.
India had joined the Interpol in 1949, and has been an active member of the organisation. It has hosted two General Assemblies.
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The statement was issued by the CBI a day after the media reported the CCF decision that came as a setback to Indian investigating agencies and triggered a huge political uproar.
The attack came after the name of Choksi, wanted in a Rs 13,000-crore scam in the Punjab National Bank, is understood to have been removed from the Interpol database of Red Notices on the basis of his plea to the Lyon-headquartered agency, people in the know of the development had said.
The Interpol had issued the Red Notice against Choksi in 2018, nearly 10 months after he fled from India in January that year to take refuge in Antigua and Barbuda, where he had taken citizenship.
Speaking at the India Digital Summit organised by the IAMAI, National Cyber Security Coordinator Lt Gen (Retd) Rajesh Pant said that countries like China and Russia were driving a split in the internet due to geopolitical reasons. As a result, he said, cybersecurity has assumed geopolitical dimensions.
Edgardo Greco, 63, suspected of belonging to the notorious 'Ndrangheta' group, is wanted in Italy for murders. He was arrested this week in the French city of Saint-Etienne.
Amit Shah will arrive at the newly-built swanky Pragati Maidan to address the concluding session of the assembly at 12.50 pm, the home ministry said on Twitter.
The Interpol meet will be held at Pragati Maidan between October 18 to October 21. With delegations from more than 195 countries attending the four-day event, commuters in Delhi have been warned about traffic delays and disruptions
The meeting is being held in India after a gap of about 25 years. It was last held in 1997.
India is the 68th country among the total 295 members of the Interpol to have access to this database and software.
In a statement, the central agency said the FBI has not sent any team to India to conduct a probe in the matter nor has any request been made by the US probe agency to the CBI for conducting an investigation in this case.
The case relates to procurement fraud involving 24.9 million rand, paid between November 2011 and April 2012 by the Free State Department of Agriculture to Nulane Investment.
A sudden move by Choksi to flee his Caribbean home in Antigua and Barbuda on May 25 seems to have given India the opportunity that nearly two years of diplomatic discussions didn't. Choksi's arrest in the neighbouring country of Dominica has now opened the way for him to be extradited to India and face the law, sources say.
Interpol issued a global alert to law enforcement agencies across the world, warning them to prepare for organised crime networks targeting COVID-19 vaccines, both physically and online.
Interpol has also noted that instances of individuals claiming to sell contaminated samples of body fluids online have been reported.
Nehal Modi's name figured as the accused number 27 in the supplementary chargesheet filed by the CBI, which charged him for destroying evidence in Dubai to cover the tracks of the alleged crime, the officials said.
A banking Trojan known as Cerberus is used by cybercriminals internationally and it is taking advantage of the novel coronavirus pandemic to impersonate and send SMSes under the cover of COVID-19-related content, asking innocuous users to download an embedded malicious link, they said.
Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi are alleged to be the main perpetrators of India's biggest bank fraud that came to the fore last year.
In 2019, up to July 15, 41 Red Notice requests have been sent to Interpol and 32 requests have been published.
Officials of the special investigation team formed to probe the matter said that that they have hit a "dead end" in the case.
The Supreme Court had issued warrants to the Federal Investigation Agency to produce Husain Haqqani, a prominent critic of Pakistan's military.
"The Interpol has issued a Red Corner Notice against Mehul Choksi on the request of CBI," CBI spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said.